A wild Golden Age jungle oddball from the brief, unruly years when publishers were scrambling to survive and anything with muscles and a loincloth could get a print run. This was supposed to be Jo-Jo #30, but when the title changed at the last minute, the book became Jungle Jo — and you can literally see the name edits inside as the character gets rebranded on the fly.
Inside you get classic jungle serial chaos: political pirates, hostile queens, betrayals in the bush, rescue missions, and Fox-era pulp weirdness. One story here (“The Cheat!” by Jack Kamen) went on to live multiple lives in later horror and reprint books — proof this isn’t just jungle fluff, it’s part of the DNA of exploitation-era comics.
Raw, strange, and unmistakably 1950 — this is a slice of comic-book history from the messy middle years between superheroes and horror.
A wild Golden Age jungle oddball from the brief, unruly years when publishers were scrambling to survive and anything with muscles and a loincloth could get a print run. This was supposed to be Jo-Jo #30, but when the title changed at the last minute, the book became Jungle Jo — and you can literally see the name edits inside as the character gets rebranded on the fly.
Inside you get classic jungle serial chaos: political pirates, hostile queens, betrayals in the bush, rescue missions, and Fox-era pulp weirdness. One story here (“The Cheat!” by Jack Kamen) went on to live multiple lives in later horror and reprint books — proof this isn’t just jungle fluff, it’s part of the DNA of exploitation-era comics.
Raw, strange, and unmistakably 1950 — this is a slice of comic-book history from the messy middle years between superheroes and horror.
